- Kube-apiserver: events created via the `events.k8s.io` API group for cluster-scoped objects are now permitted in the default namespace as well for compatibility with events clients and the `v1` API ([#100125](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100125), [@h4ghhh](https://github.com/h4ghhh))

- The scheduler skips the `InterPodAffinity` Score plugin when nothing to do with the Pod.
  It will affect some metrics values related to the InterPodAffinity Score plugin. ([#117794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117794), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling]

				svctest.MakeServicePort("q", 76, intstr.FromInt32(76), api.ProtocolUDP)),
			svctest.SetNodePorts(30093, 30093)),
		expectError: true,
	}}

	// Do this in the outer scope for performance.
	storage, _, server := newStorage(t, []api.IPFamily{api.IPv4Protocol})
	defer server.Terminate(t)
	defer storage.Store.DestroyFunc()

	for _, tc := range testCases {

  * The oidc client plugin has reduce round trips and fix scopes requested ([#45317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45317), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

	// The following deletions have no practical effect at this time
	// because state.vars has been reset by the preceding state.startBlock.
	// They only enforce the fact that these variables are no longer need in
	// the current scope.
	delete(s.vars, ptrVar)
	delete(s.vars, lenVar)
	if !inplace {
		delete(s.vars, capVar)
	}

	// make result
	if inplace {
		return nil
	}

- The Scheduler did not run the plugin Score method when its PreScore method returned a Skip status. In other words, the PreScore/Score plugin could return a Skip status in PreScore if the plugin did nothing in Score for that Pod. ([#115652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115652), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))